Do One Thing
Do One Thing! It's as easy as it sounds.
Commit to one simple action (we call 'em DOTs) to take action on climate change by lowering your emissions and/or raising your voice - anything from carrying a reusable water bottle to solarizing your school. Warning: Doing One Thing can be highly rewarding!
Check out the video to see what we're talking about!
A DOT is a commitment to Do One Thing to help the envirment. But that's just you and your actions. Imagine the impact of connecting the DOTs from around the world - it all adds up to changing the future for the better!
Ready? Good! Tell us your DOT through any of these three easy ways:
- Text DOT to 30644 and follow the easy (and entertaining!) instructions
- Post your DOT on our Facebook Wall for all your friends to see
- Post your DOT in the comments below - just click on "Add new comment" and write your DOT in the body! For example, "My DOT is to ride my bike to school." Yeah!
Thanks for Doing One Thing to curb climate change - and thanks for sharing with ACE!
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Multiple DOTs
My daughter and I do the following: reusable water bottles, thermostat set at 65 degrees F, water heater turned down, cold water only laundry, water saver on the showerhead, turn off water while brushing teeth, combine short errands into one trip, drive 55 mph on expressways, not buy out of season fruits or fruits which are flown in, not purchasing foods in plastic containers which are not recyclable in our area, recycle newpapers, magazines, junk mail, reusable lunch bags. We try to generate as little garbage as possible and recycle everything we can.
My DOT
My DOT is to ride my bike to school when it isn't raining and to inspire others to care about the planet through my Environmental Club and by encouraging my friends to be more aware! :-)
My dot!
I will unplug my cell phone charger, laptop chargers, etc. when they are not in use. I will also convince my friends and family to do the same thing! I will carry a reusable water bottle, and convince my family to change the light bulbs in our house! One thing can go a long way-- I want to do my part!
D.S.
Hi!1) I walk to school every morning, 2) I keep my laptop unplugged whenever I don't use it 3) I walk around my house turning the lights off all day 4) I will try not to take showers more than 15mins. 5) No plastic bottles
Solar Panel's at Eaglebrook School
My DOT was, My friend and I got together and made a proposal to for our schools gym to be more energy efficient by putting solar panels on the roof. Three months later and the solar panel's are under construction.
Withdraw from H2O.
What i am going to do to make my dot smaller would be to cut back on water. For example when i take showers I'm going to get in and out to make the water i use less. I'm also going to shut off the sink when i am brushing my teeth and only turn it on when i need to. Also instead of using the plastic waterbottles I'm going to have my parents get me water bottle that i don't through away and keep it for a loooonnnnnngggggg time. The last thing im going to do is put a jar full of rocks capped off into my toilet so when i flush not as much water is going down the drain. Also it take less to fill the toilet up.
BrittneysDOT
What i am going to do to male me DOT smaller, i am going to unplug my charger and flat iron from the wall when i am not using it. I am also going to change the light bulbs to green light bulbs. I am going to start recycle my water bottles and cans that use through out the day.
SiERRA's DOT.!
Well as an individual i will make a change buy using less water for things and also whenever i go to the gym instead using a new plastic bottle i'm going to just one that i've bought from the store to decrease the amount of plastic i use. another thing i will do is start recycling at my house instead of throwing everything all together.
saving H20
one thing i will do to conserve water is to carry my own water bottle around to avoid having to use cups or plastic bottles that aren't safe to our planet.
yip's dot
i will continue to not eat meat. i will continue to bike to school every day. i will continue to buy vintage, eat organic, unplug wires and turn off lights. and i will continue to harbor an energetic environment for sustainability at my school.
Yip's Dot
HI!just want to say good jobI'm also giving up meat but for religion and just because I'm against the wholeantibiotics and ANIMAL CRUELTYso yeah, high 5!!
Mandas Dot
all my lights inside and out will be fluorescent light blubs =] and unplug every thing not in use
DOT
I will use a reusabale water bottle everyday and walk to school once a week.
Todd's DOT
Iwill change all my light bulbs to compact fluorescents.
Its Aleexss dot!!:D
I Will make sure yo uplug my phone charger everyday when i am not using it!Also i will walk to school once a week :]
CASEY'S DOT :D
I PLAN TO UNPULG MY PHONE CHARGR EVERY NITE AND EVERY MORING WHEN ITS NOT IN USE SO I CAN REDUCE MY FAMILIES CARBON FOOT PRINT
my DOT
I used to bring one plastic bottled water to school everyday which is a lot of plastic! After we had an ACE assembly at my school, I decided to bring a reusable water bottle to school everyday to save all that plastic. It was a very easy switch that anyone could do and it also saves tons of money on bottled water! So everybody, pick one think and do it!
MY DOT!!
I will only be able to do a few things to save our planet because it's hard for me to stay commited to a big thing like planting crops and trees, things like that. I will unplug everything that is not being used inside my house every time I see it happening. I will continue walking to and from school and encourage others to walk to and from school if they can. I will save electricity by turning everything off in the room when no one is in there.
my dot
my dot is to walk to and from school everyday so i don't cause that much pollution in this world lol
i will plant more crops to make our earth healthier
i want to plant lots of crops so that i can make our earth healthier and cleaner!
i will unplug my chargers
i will unplug my chargers from the wall while not in use
Electricity
Every time i leave a room i will make sure everything is unplugged
my dot
try to get my mom to change lights and un plug un used coards
DOT!
What my family and I did was that we changed all of the lightbulbs in my house to energy efficient ones. We changed all the shower heads to water saving ones. And everytime our laptops or alarm clocks or chargers are not in use, we unplug them to save energy:D Everyone reading this, do something to help the earth and use lesss energy. Conserve water! Stop killing FISH! lol:D
my DOT!!
My DOT is to use energy effitient lightbulbs, unplug my chargers and things when iI'm not using them, and to turn off the lights when they are not needed!!! go meeeee!!Go this generation! lolKaitlyn U.
My DOT
My DOT is to tell the people that send me junk mail to stop mailing them to me. That way, we can save and stop a lot of paper from being wasted.
CLEAN REFORESTATION
My DOT is to not litter, pick up litter whenever i see it, and to plant more trees and plants (i have plant over 20 trees already) and started a garden in my backyard. n_nYOSHIIE ALLENmetwestyoshiiea@gmail.com
MY DOT DOT DOT!
My DOT is to gather up all plastic water bottles (if we have it...) and recycle them!And to use reusable liquid container (I'm already using it!!)
My DOT
My DOT is to make sure I unplug all the chargers in my house so they dont keep using electricity all day when nothing is charging them. YEAH!
DOT
YEAH! I did that too!!! now my chargers are on floor starving by now!
MY DOT!!!
My DOT is to reduce my paper and plastic use, to "unplug my vampires" early and often, and to take a break from the computer and unplug it once in a while! :)
Recycling Paper and Plastics
I want to recycle paper and plastics besides disposing them in the trash because it produces more fossil fuels when you don't reuse certain objects.
Light strip
I have a light strip with every thing pluged in and when im not home i turn it offit has things like TV,Phone,Cable, lights,computer and other things
Power Strip
I do the same thing but more for my room. I have my laptop,ipod charger and phone charger plugged into a strip and I turn it off before I go to sleep each night and leave it off when I go to school!
turn off all items not use
after listing to the lady and smething i would do it turn off all the lights in my room before going to school and turn the tv before going to sleep and have timers for lots of things at home and take off my charger for my phone when not use.
tv
use the tv less
recycle and unplug my charger
When the new semester started. i recycled all my old papers from my binders and everything from school. Im also gonna start unpluging my charger and everything i leave pluged in when i leave home.
Reuse
next time im going to the store i am going to look for a reusable water bottle and at my house im going try to get a recyclin bin.
Unplugg
i am going to start by unplugging my cell phone charger when i am not using it. And turn off the light when night needed.
light
i turned my light and tv off when i left the room.
Convince the rest of my
Convince the rest of my household to turn off the lights when we're not using them.
turn off computer
Dont leave computer on whenever done using make sure to turn it off and it can because it can save electric bills
climate change
Start recycling and unplug my cell phone charger from my wall because I always leave it in the wall.
phone charger
I always keep my phone charger plug in the wall so i wont have to plug it up when i use it. I really think that i should start unpluging the charger i think by me keeping it in the wall im using up a lot of energy.
no more bottle water
I will not buy any more bottle water and instead i am going to have a reuseable container and fill it with tap water
heating with wood
I'm checking out the possibilties of using a wood burning stove to heat my house. I think I can get a really good used one for about a thousand dollars. The presenter yesterday told me that a wood stove makes a lot less total bad emission than using gas to heat...and the wood is recycled into use instead of going into landfill. I could save at least $500 a year, even using it part time, so it would pay for itself in the first two years...then would save me money while it is saving the environment.
wear a sweatshirt
instead of cranking up the thermostat, turn it down a little and toss on a sweatshirt
What I would do to save the Earth
I would try to spend less time in the shower, unplug my charger when I'm not using it, and turn off light when there is no one is in the room.
Save Water
I will try not to waste water when cleaning dishes, brushing my teeth, and by taking a short shower.